Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined (almost 1/2 trillion dollars)

Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined

By Neil Hughes

Published: 11:12 AM EST (08:12 AM PST)
First on AI: Apple's stock soared to new heights on Thursday, pushing the company's market capitalization to $456 billion, a number that is greater than the values of rivals Google and Microsoft combined.

As of Thursday morning, Microsoft's market cap was around $256.7 billion, while Google was valued at around $198.9 billion. With Apple's stock up more than 3 percent in morning trading, the company surpassed the combined totals of both Google and Microsoft.

The milestone comes soon after Apple reported its best quarter ever, earning $13.06 billion on sales of 37 million iPhones, 15 million iPads and 5.2 million Macs. Total revenue for Apple's holiday quarter was $46.33 billion.

But Google's shares fell more than 9 percent last month after the company missed expectations on Wall Street for both earnings and revenue. And while Microsoft met Wall Street expectations, revenue from its Windows operating system fell 6 percent to $4.74 billion.

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5. Yay! More lifestyle gadgets for smug bourgeoisie!

I guess this sort of profitability is what happens when you price your products at the upper end of each's market niche, encourage a cultish level of customer loyalty...then relentlessly cut production costs with quasi-slave-labor and other dubious practices.